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I'm glad I'm not saddled with arachnophobia. Sitting here at night, I often see the odd largish spider scuttle across the room, and if that caused me fear, I imagine I'd have a problem...

It's not like I can help being arachnaphobic ...

Well, actually phobias can be treated... but it's certainly not at all as simple to get rid of them as some people tend to think. "They're not dangerous, especially if you leave them in peace" won't do the trick.

On earwigs... the "they crawl into your ear and EAT YOUR BRAIN!!" story is, of course, bunk. Not that they wouldn't be unnerving in large quantities - especially inside a building. I remember one rainy evening a few years ago when there were hundreds of green lacewings on the outside of every single window in the house; that was interesting and kind of surreal, but not disturbing.

Not a real entry (old), but I'll link to this anyway. It's a wearisome exercise in metahumour and metametahumour, though at least it was amusing to write.

Unfortunately I'm generally unable to write anything even marginally serious because I basically finish two sentences, am then horrified by how pretentious and/or derivative and/or plain old bad they seem to me and stop writing (and all my other creative endeavours end similarly. Sometimes people say that they're their own harshest critic and how much this helps them, but I don't think I benefit much from it myself), but I'll see if I can come up with something quickly.

We were, yes. Don't congratulate me too much, though, most of what's there was provided by AGA and Esseb. I semi-finished a site for it, but as I said maintaining a database would be both a lot of work and redundant.

Epsecially after killing an innocent man from Brazil, just because we has feeling cold, so he had a lot of clothes on (?) This seems a lot like 1984...

He didn't. He also didn't run into the station and jump over a ticket barrier. Apparently the whole thing was simply a surveillance mixup combined with overeagerness (and, in the case of the initial bulky-clothes and barrier-vaulting misinformation, idiot eyewitnesses). That it raises questions about police procedure and competence is clear, no matter what you think the answer to these questions is, but 1984? No. No.

I've got a bunch of AGS games archived here. It's not very well sorted, of course, because I'm too horribly lazy to maintain it, and there's a lot missing for the same reason. Originally there was also going to be a database of the games I have there, but that never really got off the ground, as it would be both a lot of work and redundant. Still, I think you'll find several of the games you're looking for if you nose around a bit.

(And now that I've actually gotten around to mentioning this to The General Public, I should probably point out that this is all without most of the authors' explicit permission, and if your game is there and you don't want it to be I'll remove it)

It is? I never heard of it. Are you sure it's not one of those "so-called-Portuguese-snacks" that get sold in foreign "Portuguese food" shops, or something, that few people in Portugal actually eat?

At any rate, I have to say, and I've been paying attention lately, the average portuguese person is many things - lazy, pessimistic, short-to-medium height (tall is rare, though we have extra-tall too - even rarer, naturally). Fat, the average person certainly isn't.

Presumably when TerranRich said "Portuguese", he did not mean "Portuguese", but "Americans of vaguely Portuguese descent". It's an odd tendency some people have.

As for myself, I eat somewhere near just about as unhealthily as a vegetarian can without actively trying to, and pretty much the only exercise I get is walking everywhere I can because I'm one of the three or so people in the world who actually like walking. I drink large amounts of Coke and consequently will probably die of osteoporosis within a decade or so thanks to delicious, delicious phosphoric acid.

I should probably change some of this, but I simply can't be bothered, and besides: I haven't outright exploded yet, so nothing I'm doing is harmful. Right?

Right?

No puzzles, no. I can't imagine why anybody voted for it, let alone the plurality. Same goes for the music - unless you count writing the synth I used, which you shouldn't, it took pretty much exactly as long to make as it takes to listen to, which makes sense considering it's just me basically hitting a virtual pot with a virtual wooden spoon at random for two minutes. I thought GQ was the obvious winner for music... there must be some sort of curse on Ghormak.

The writing is really all there is to it. It's not that good either, but I guess if people liked it I can't complain.

Not until voting is over.

I think he meant "my copy of HiYah", not "my submission, which is HiYah".

Whoops! Sorry.

Excellent entries all around - but since I'm late, I'll make this short. Winner: Oz! Congratulations.

Ogg. In this case, as in most, with Vorbis in it. It's a lossy audio compression thingy, sort of like MP3, only better in some ways. Good media players can open it, get one.

Sorry for not posting again earlier - was home over the weekend. Good to hear you're not annoyed at being displaced, Flippy. And nice entries so far... looking forward to the rest.

I guess I'll be doing this this week, then. So.

Let's do something fairly open... a man is walking down a street, staring at the ground before him in order to avoid stepping on snails. What's the music playing in his head?

No, I'm pretty sure Ghormak is right - padding in the last frame is an inherent design flaw of MP3. I think I read somewhere that LAME writes additional information that can be used to avoid this or something, but of course the decoder would have to know about this... which I doubt most do.

voodoolake hasn't been around for a while now... according to his profile, he hasn't visited these forums of ours since the 3rd. Could you perhaps name a replacement victor, Flippy?

I'm not sure about AGS' escape sequence support, but just using "Here followeth character 16: \x10" should work also - i.e. backslash, x, character number in hex.

Here.



...joke, joke. I'm kind of working on a real entry, but I guarantee nothing.

Also, autostereograms simply don't work on many people (e.g. myself) with certain sight defects, such as astigmatism. Personally, I'd be careful about puzzles that rely too much on lack of physical disabilities, though I guess if someone did this they could supply the information elsewhere. Admittedly, if you did a whole game this way, it would be a neat gimmick; and I have no right to tell you not to make something just because I couldn't play it.

It's almost like they had deadlines to meet and had their programmer whip up some characters for the game. 

I do seem to remember Roger looking different from this in the SQ6 demo, if that means anything.

If you ask for existing programs, you can't blame people for "thinking within the boundaries of current technology". That's absurd. You specifically asked for software to do your emoting for you. Sorry, but within the boundaries of current technology, that's also absurd.